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Language-Specific Existential Sentence Types: a Case Study of Lithuanian
Kalbotyra, 2008 The article is devoted to the analysis of a specific syntactic structure in Lithuanian, the BKI construction. This type of sentence is also attested in Russian, where it has got a wide coverage.
Violeta Kalėdaitė
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Agreement, Case and Definiteness in Balkan Existential Constructions
Balcania et SlaviaThis paper discusses agreement and definiteness effects in existential constructions in Balkan existentials constructions. I build on the restriction on definiteness properties of existential pivots known as definiteness effect: post-copular pivots in
Frasson, Alberto
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, 2017 Existential wh-constructions are wh-constructions that have a nominal distribution, an existential (indefinite) meaning, and the superficial appearance of a “bare” wh-clause. They come in two main subtypes—existential free relatives and modal existential wh-constructions—with opinions divided as to how these types are related to each other and whether ...
Radek Šimík
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Construction, validity and reliability of existential anxiety questionnaire (QFEA)
روانشناسی بالینی و شخصیت, 2016 Introductoin: The purpose of present research was to design Existential anxiety questionnaire (death, freedom, loneliness and meaninglessness) and investigate its validity and reliability.
Raheleh Masoudi Sani +4 more
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Contextualized Existential Constructions in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
, 2022 This paper proposes that in addition to the typical out-of-the-blue existential construction, a kind of contextualized existential construction exists in Mandarin Chinese.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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Diversity and Inclusion in Existential Risk Studies
, 2023 This report presents the findings of an independent study into Diversity and Inclusion in the emerging transdisciplinary field sometimes known as Existential Risk Studies.
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Presentational/Existential Structures in Spoken versus Written German: Es Gibt and SEIN [PDF]
, 2013 This article presents a synchronic, corpus-based examination of spoken German with regard to the distribution and function of presentational/ existential es gibt NP and a range of SEIN NP structures such as da SEIN , locative SEIN , es SEIN , and zero ...
Weinert, Regina
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, 2021 For transparency and easy comparability, grammatical descriptions normally make use of well-known grammatical terms, such as “bound form”, “dative”, “antipassive” and “existential”.
Haspelmath, Martin
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Lietuvių Kalba, 2019 In this article I aim to establish source constructions for the inclusive copular construction with the verb virsti ‘turn into’ and to discuss how this once locomotional verb eventually became a copula with an aspectual function in the sentences ...
Rolandas Mikulskas
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Variation and variability in L2 learning trajectories: Learning the Finnish existential construction
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2022 Taking an onomasiological approach and a dynamic usage-based perspective, this study explores how four beginning L2 learners of Finnish develop in expressing existentiality (‘there is something somewhere’) before and after instruction.
Sirkku Lesonen +3 more
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